Staff Profile:Professor Peter Grindrod CBE CMath

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Professor Peter Grindrod

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Peter Grindrod's research interests are in modelling and analysing the behaviour of (large) groups of people, based on vast data sets. Usually these are customers or consumers or else simply users of products, services or technologies within the service sectors. Step changes in IT and communications provide new spaces for people to work, rest and play. These can be transformative. Whether online, or communicating via social media or telecoms, the Digital Society offers exciting challenges for mathematics and demands new types of models. Most recently this has involved development of evolving networks and their application to marketing, telephone customers (behaviour based inferencing) and to radicalization and counter terrorism. This involves probability theory, graph theory, dynamical systems theory, and spectral theory. He collaborates with groups at Cambridge, Nottingham, Strathclyde and Bath Universities.

Peter is also an active member of the UoR's Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics, and he is interested in modelling cognitive functions, from simple information processing up to consciousness.

Peter is a former member of EPSRC Council, and is a current member of BBSRC Council and of the MOD's DSAC. He is an advisory to many companies in the retail and energy sectors, and he is actively involved with a number of start up companies.

He is a former President of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), the UK's largest professional and learned society for mathematicians. He says "All mathematics graduates should join the IMA when they graduate. They will stay in touch with maths and find that they are part of a broad community that supports them with CPD, networking, insights and learning, throughout their careers, whether in the public sector, teaching, academia, industry or commerce. They will be close to mathematics for their whole careers, they will remain part of a brilliant and creative community".

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